Classic Papers

A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, by James Maxwell, 1873.
On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Generation and Transformation of Light, by A. Einstein, 1905
On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies, by A. Einstein, 1905
Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon its Energy-content?, by A. Einstein, 1905.
Principia Mathematica, by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, 1910.
The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity, by A. Einstein, 1916.
On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems, by Kurt Gödel, 1931
A Mathematical Theory of Communication, by Claude E. Shannon, 1948
On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox, by J.S. Bell, 1964.